What We Do

Every month at Give Something Back to Berlin we organise a community event where refugees and Berliners of all kinds – Germans, recently-settled “expats” etc. – come together to meet new people.

For the first few hours of Christmas day I really regretted my decision to have a Berlin Christmas. Luckily, I had kept one tradition – the stress of trying to cook Christmas dinner.

Join us for our weekly GSBTB English! We start again at the beginning of January.

Simply WOW. The community team up yesterday went better than we ever could have wished for!

These nice words came from the team at the homeless organisation Frostschutzengel who thanked all you GSBTBerliner volunteers for your commitment in 2015.

Our Christmas Party Music Extravaganza event last week was a culmination of all the best parts of this year in the life of Give Something Back to Berlin.

Once dubbed the “mother of all airports”, Tempelhof Airport is now welcoming refugees into its bosom.

A fabulous new initiative offers tours through the heart of the refugee rights movement in Berlin.

This week GSBTB has the honour of hosting the alumni-network of The Intercultural Innovation Award from United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group who are in Berlin at a conference.

This week Diana, a Syrian journalist from Al Jazeera, knocked on the door of our office.

Dear GSBTBerliners, hangarounds and friends. What a crazy beautiful ride the last couple of weeks have been!

I spent last Wednesday serving lunch to refugees with the volunteer group Moabit Hilft. The unmistakable sound of chanting protestors boomed towards us from the main street while my friend Lisa and I carted our tray of minestrone soups and schrippen around the park.